MINA LOY – BLOOD ON ITS WINGS
I spent a rainy morning during the holidays reading British-born poet, Mina Loy. Mina was also an exceptional artist, a writer, playwright, novelist and painter.Nicholas Fox Weber in the New York Times said this about her, "This brave soul had the courage and wit to be original. Mina Loy may never be more than a vaguely familiar name, a passing satellite, but at least she sparkled from an orbit of her own choosing." Her poetry is stark and surrealistic and entirely her own, and all a bit radical for her time. Her strange, dissenting poetry is a wonder to behold! Love Susie x
Love Songs
IX
We might have coupled
In the bed-ridden monopoly of a moment
Or broken flesh with one another
At the profane communion table
Where wine is spill't on promiscuous lips
We might have given birth to a butterfly
With the daily-news
Printed in blood on its wings
Mina Hoy
MINA LOY - TEASING A BUTTERFLY 1902